Houda Ghorbel, an independent multidisciplinary artist based in Tunis. Her work combines painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, installation and video. She is always looking for a new medium, a new way of expressing her ideas, questioning and understanding the complexity of being and the world around her. Her artistic commitment, not only demonstrates her passion for art but also her critical, philosophical and even political involvement. She participated in several national and international exhibitions and residencies.
DIPLOMA
Phd in Arts and Sciences | The Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis
EXHIBITIONS AND PERSONAL PERFORMANCES
- 2017 | “Ward & cartouches fel djebel”, Semmama Mount, Kasserine (Tn)
- 2017 | “Vicious Circle” Jaou Tunis, Spanish Gate of the Goulette | La Goulette (Tn)
- 2016 | «Ward & Cartouches», Alain Nadaud Gallery, Sadika Art Space | Gammarth (Tn)
- 2012-2013 | “Help me push, my voice is nothing without yours …”, an artistic performance on the street symbolizing the march towards DEMOCRACY | Tunis, Sfax, Sousse, Gabes, Bizerte and Mahdia (Tn)
- 2012 | “Beneath my flag …”, video performance realized in Sejnane with the collaboration of women potters and the organizing team of the Laaroussa project | (Tn)
- 2004 | «Ceramics», Galerie Art Present | Paris (Fr)
- 2003 | «Éclat» Painting and Ceramics at the Galerie Caliga | Tunis (Tn)
- 1997 | “Spaces of souls” in El Teatro Complex El Mechtel | Tunis (Tn)
- 1994 | 1 st solo exhibition at the house of culture | Sfax (Tn)
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)
- 2018 |“Evi Lichtungen”, International Licht Kunst Biennale, Hildesheim, Germany.
- 2017: “Responsive”, International Light Art Project, Halifax (Ca)
- 2017: “Polarisation”, Exposition d’art contemporain, POPO, Galerie Alain Nadaud, Gammarth (Tn)
- 2017 | “Message in a bottle“, Arterial network, meeting and exhibition | Seychelles (Sc)
- 2017 | “Women Artists Arab”, AWAN 1, Rich Mix | London (Gb)
- 2017 | “Géo-Grafi”, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, B’chira Art Center | Tunis (Tn)
- 2016-2017 | “Med’in Peace”, 32 Mediterranean artists exhibition for Peace during a 2-year sensitization tour in France: Montélimar (Musée Saint-Martin), Volvic (Musée Marcel-Sahut) Montpelier, Marseille, Lyon, Paris …
- 2016 | “Tunisia, the new picture”, Selam Feriani Gallery, Embassy of Tunisia | London (Gb)
- 2016 | “Focus Maghreb”, Bchira Art Center at the Swab | Barcelona (Es)
- 2016 | “Beyond the Veil”, Room “Degli Archi” | Livorno (It)
- 2016 | 6th edition of the contemporary art festival Orienta | Oujda (Ma)
- 2016 | Parallel Projects at the OFF of the 6th Biennale of Marrakech | Marrakech (Ma)
- 2016 | «Pollen» Exhibition of visual and literary art in the gardens of the French residency “Dar-El Kamila” | La Marsa (Tn)
- 2015-2016 | “TRACES” Fragments of a contemporary Tunisia, Mucem | Marseille (Fr)
- 2016 | “BARCHA”, Musk and Amber Gallery | Tunis (Tn)
- 2015 | “+216” at the beautiful Friche de May | Marseille (Fr)
- 2014 | Traveling virtual image festival | Bamako, Sikasso and Ségou (Ml)
- 2O14 | The Treasury of the Medina, Galerie Medina | Bamako (Ml)
- 2014 | 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dak’Art 2014 | Dakar (Sn)
- 2014 | SOS-Borj in peril, Artistic intervention in Borj Rekik with Houda Ghorbel and Hichem Ben Khélifa | Sfax (Tn)
- 2014 | 6×7 / 100 = 11 Exhibition of contemporary art for the centenary of Paul Klee’s passage in Tunsia, Sadika Art Space | Gammarth (Tn)
- 2013 | Khadra, Darb 1718, Center of Culture and Contemporary Art | Cairo (Eg)
- 2012-2015 | Act 01, Act 02, act 03 and act 04 Bchira Art Center | Sidi Thabet, Tunis (Tn)
- 2012 | «Be there» Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Center of Living Art | Tunis (Tn)
- 2012 | Spring of the Art Fair Tunis 2012, palace El Abdelliya | La marsa (Tn)
- 2011 | “The Image Revolution”, European Parliament | Brussels (Be)
- 2005 – 2011 | The Spring of Plastic Arts of Marsa | La marsa (Tn)
- 2003 – 2011 | Ceramics and sculpture in Sfax | Sfax (Tn)
- 2011 | “Opening” B’Chira Art Center | Tunis (Tn)
- 1994 -2010 | Union of Tunisian plastic artists
- 2008 | «Painting – Sculpture – Installation», Kanvas | La Soukra (Tn)
- 2007 | Roman-Germanic Museum of Köln | Köln (De)
- 2006 | Contemporary Art, Safsaf Gallery | La marsa (Tn)
- 2005 | “The Salon 2005” National Monegasque Committee.
- 2002 | Ecume – Second Biennale of the city of Tunis | Tunis (Tn)
- 2002 | Chrif-Fine Art Gallery | Tunis (Tn)
WORKSHOPS AND RESDENCIES
- 2017 | LICHTCAMPUS 2017, Black Light Workshop | Hildesheim (De)
- 2016 | Artistic residendy | Ségou ‘Art, first edition of the Contemporary Art Fair of Mali | Ségou (Ml)
- 2016 | Artistic residendy | «INTERFERENCE» First international Light Art Festival in the Medina of Tunis | Tunis (Tn)
- 2013 | Artistic residendy | First International Contemporary «Land Art» Festival | Tozeur (Tn)
- 2013 | International Ceramic Symposium | New Valley (Eg)
- 2012 | Atelier Pure Data in Ennajma Ezzahra | Sidi Bou Said | Tunis (Tn)
- 2012 | International Symposium on Ceramics and Sculpture | Boleslawiec (Pl)
- 2009 | Artistic residendy | Osnabrück (De)
- 2003 | International Residence | Damascus (Sy)
- 2003 | Ceramics of Art – Neopolis Ceram of Nabeul | Nabeul (Tn)
- 1994 and 1998 | International Festival of Plastic Arts of Maharès | Mahrés (Tn)
PRICE – COMPETITIONS
- 2014 | Prize of the “Centre Soleil d’Afrique” at the 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dak’Art 2014 | Dakar (Sn)
- 2013 | Video performance, Africa in América | Brazil (Br)
- 2012 | AFAC EXPRESSS Award, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | Lebanon (Lb)
- 2003 | First Prize, Salon of Ceramics of Art, Gallery of Plastic Arts | Sfax (Tn)
- 1995 | Second prize Painting, Salon of Autumn, Galerie El Marsa | La marsa (Tn)
